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Connor Gilroy
Computational sociologist & PhD student
Currently searching for summer internships in data science or social science.
Education
University of Washington
PhD, Sociology
Seattle, WA
expected 2022 - 2018
Comprehensive Exam: “Community: Origins, Processes, and Consequences.” Passed with distinction, June 2019
Certificate: Special Concentration in Social Statistics. May 2019
University of Washington
MA, Sociology
Seattle, WA
2018 - 2015
Thesis: “How Distinct is Gay Neighborhood Change? Patterns and Variation in Gayborhood Trajectories.”
Graduate School Distinguished Thesis Award in Social Sciences, 2019
University of Chicago
BA, Biology and Geophysical Sciences
Chicago, IL
2013 - 2009
Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant & Instructor
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
present - 2016
- Taught sections at the undergraduate and graduate levels, such as sociological theory, data science and population processes, and Bayesian statistics for the social sciences | R, Stata, Stan
- Designed and taught an undergraduate course in Data and Society | R
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
2017 - 2015
- Awarded two years of competitive research fellowships
- Built agent-based model of public opinion change in response to LGBTQ people coming out (with Katherine Stovel) | NetLogo, R (igraph)
- Analyzed processes of sexuality disclosure using aggregate social media data (with Ridhi Kashyap) | Python (facebookads), R (tidyverse)
Quality Assurance
Epic Systems Corporation
Verona, WI
2015 - 2013
- Automated testing of web services | C# (Selenium), Python (requests)
- Manual testing and project management for EHR software | Excel